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Published: 2017-03-19 20:16:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 312; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 3
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This started out as just environment practice (forests are hard!) and it ended up turning into a full painting! Really enjoyed using muted colours and I tried to get a kind of atmospheric feeling to it, although I'm not sure I pulled that off.Also, I think I got this done in like, what, 3 hours of painting? I feel kinda shocked at that. Back 9 months ago pictures were taking me days to even weeks! Never thought I'd get this fast.
Hope you like the picture!!
Edit: Updated the picture after receiving a bit of criticism and realizing I forgot the entire set of trees in the middle ground. I just hid the layer and forgot about them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Comments: 5
i love it. ^^
your style is just so great, because i feel like its really similar to mine but somehow better. you just have a grasp on some concepts that i dont, and vice-versa. we can really learn alot from eachother
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Haha thanks!!
I suppose they share the lineless aspect and that which does add that commonality. 
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well, one thing i know that gives things more depth is to draw a background behind your background, if that makes sense...? usually your really good at doing that though. but basically, where that sortof steel blue color is between the back trees, i would think that putting something back there might add even more depth. like i did here, with the hills and mountains: Luminescent
also though; a weakness in that image is that it doesn't seem to have the same depth of field focus effect that you have here. i tried to give it that using a vignette but that didnt work too well.... so, how could i best achieve that?
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Oh okay, I see what you mean!
I was considering putting more trees back there initially but I left it out in the end because I was worried it would become a bit too cluttered. Maybe I could have gone further with that after all.
As for the depth of field or vignette, I think it's it's mainly about colours. Each layer behind the character here becomes closer to the background colour as it gets further back. You can do this fairly easily by painting the layers in the same colour but lowering the opacity on each one. You can also add the focal blur like I did here if you like, which I just did by using a blur tool around the outline of whatever I was reducing the focus of.
Other than that, it's just practice. You'll get a feel for it as you do more art and It'll come more naturally to you.
Thanks for the criticism, and I hope what I said makes sense! ^^"
Edit: Just went back to the file and noticed I left out an entire middle ground of trees by accident! Whoops!
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it looks way better now with the edits!
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